Citadel
Instrumentation – steel-string guitar
Duration – c.4’45”
Written in Brighton 2006
First performed by Lee Westwood, time and place unknown
In my mind, a graphic novel, where two storylines unfolded simultaneously… I had imagined a city, dark, rainy. Film-noir. The music painted the blackened skyline, the dark streets, where dark things took place, wrapped in the night. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the city, a young boy lies curled up on a bed in a cold room, alone, his fate uncertain…